Before us, the guitar didn’t exist in Touareg music. But Tinariwen doesn’t play traditional music. From the day you are born to the day you die, music accompanies you everywhere. VOX: How important is music in Touareg culture? I wanted to dedicate it to my companions, who have shared this long, hard road with me.” That’s one meaning of the new album title. We drew strength from each other, and faced the challenges together. Sometimes the suffering was intense you can feel it in our music. The journey has been the same for thousands of other young Touaregs of my generation. I lost my father in the first rebellion in the early-’60s, then lived in exile until my twenties. Ibrahim Ag Alhabib: “It’s been very tough. VOX: How hard was it to get to this point? With Vox-powered fourth album Imidiwan: Companions storming the charts, singer/guitarist Ibrahim Ag Alhabib looks back at the long, hard road behind him. With the Vox-powered fourth album Imidiwan: Companions storming the charts, it looks as though they still have along way to go.Ĭheck Vox DA5 Amps here – Last UK Stock, Dolphin Music Exclusive offer! Formed in 1982 by a group of Mali musicians seeking respite from the brutal regime of the government, they used home-made guitars to fuse African and Western influences and forged a reputation that was too big even for the Sahara desert to contain.īy the time of 2007’s Aman Iman album, Tinariwen was on the lips of legends from Robert Plant to Chris Martin, on stages from Glastonbury to Coachella and in the record collections of people who previously thought ‘world music’ was a dirty word. The rhythm guitars were fed through a Vox on Imidiwan to get that grungy, churning sound.”Ĭheck those photographs of the DA5 in the desert!
“It’s important for our music not to sound too sweet and the Vox helps with that. They’re solid and have a very honest rock sound, which is what I’m after for my music,” he said. Strapped onto the back of the nearest available camel, the DA5’s portability makes it the ideal desert amp – and because it runs on batteries there is no problem with the electricity supply making it ideal for the nomadic lifestyle of this now internationally well known band.Īlhabib is also keen on his Vox AC30, which the band used on their latest album. Good amps are hard to come by at the best of times, but in the desert? This is why Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, lead guitarist with Tinariwen, who both records and lives in the Sahara depends on his Vox DA5 guitar amp (last UK stock of which is available from Dolphin Music only) when the band goes out and about among the dunes. The Vox DA5 is a relieable, little workhorse of an amp, widely used by buskers, at home and even at small gigs…but, used in the Sahara desert!? Yes…the DA5 now makes name for itself in the Sahara, as acclaimed band Tinariwen also uses this fantastic little “desert amp”! Find out more…
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